BITM 2023
Date: 11-13 May 2023
Venue: Lumbini Sacred Garden
Lumbini, Nepal
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Our Speakers

Meet our most valued BITM 2019 Speakers

Venerable Metteyya Sakyaputta

Vice Chairperson of Lumbini Development Trust

At age 15, Venerable Metteyya (previously known as Awadhesh Tripathi) began building the Metta School with his dedi;

Mr. Cetin Gurcun

Former Vice President of UFTAA (Tourism)

He is the former Secretary General of TURSAB(Association of Turkish Travel Agencies) world’ sone of the large;

Bikram Pandey Kaji

President of Buddhist Circuits & Goodwill Ambassador of Lumbini ( Birthplace of Lord Buddha)

Creator of Lumbini PEACE Marathon: World’s First & ONLY Peace RUN as Spiritual SPORTS in Buddha’s o;

Basanta Bidari

Retired Chief Archeologist in Lumbini Development Trust & Proffesor in Lumbini Buddha University

He discovered the marker stone in Lumbini that identified the exact birth spot of Prince Siddhartha Gautama. He was;

Mr. Steve Cairns

Lay Buddhist and manager of Liberty Tours in Sydney, Australia.

Steven Cairns is an avid traveller, having travelled and worked in countries all around the world. He is a lay Budd;

Mr. Michael Turtle

Blogger

He has worked for almost a decade as a television and radio reporter and newsreader at Australia’s national b;

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MS. NANDINI LAHE THAPA

Senior Director at Nepal Tourism Board

MR. YOGENDRA SHAKYA

Tourism Entrepreneur

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01:00 PM
Intelligent house cleaning

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SARAH KELLY

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PETER PARKER
05:00 PM
"Event Marketing" book presentation

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MICHAEL SNOW

I am pleased to learn that Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) is organizing Buddhist International Travel Mart (BITM 2019), first of its kind in the Nepalese tourism history. The Mart will be a memorable trendsetter in showcasing new tourism products and destination development of Nepal. Lumbini, the birth place of Lord Gautam Buddha will be promoted as the gateway and the first stopover in the Buddhist circuit. I am delighted to know BITM has the theme “Explore the Buddhaland: A Gateway to Buddhist Circuits”. The theme will definitely help to promote Lumbini as the first and foremost pilgrimage amongst all the Buddhist sites. The Mart will be a milestone in unfolding the spiritual tourism and pilgrimage tourism in and around Buddha’s historical places. While exploring Buddha’s land, it will be interesting to visit Maya Devi, Ramgram, Kudan, Kapilvastu; places that are related to the life of Lord Buddha. I wish NATTA every success in its initiation and hope it will continue the Mart in the days ahead. I would also like to thank Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal Tourism Board, NATTA and all tourism related organizations for their collective effort in making BITM 2019 a great success.

I would like to extend my best wishes to NATTA and NTB for conducting this Buddhist International Travel Mart (BITM 2019) with the theme of Explore the Buddhaland: A Gateway to Buddhist Circuit. I wish entire team for their collective effort in bringing the Buddhist International Travel Mart in action, which highlights the Buddhist sites of Nepal spreading the message that Nepal is center for world peace. It will definitely create the op-portunity for the niche market of spiritual and pilgrimage tourism in Nepal and will help to expand the new travel products. I do expect it will create awareness to develop Lumbini as the first pilgrimage spot to start Buddhist Circuits in and around the Buddhist destinations in Asia, a gateway to Buddhist circuits. My special thanks to staff of Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Ne-pal Tourism Board, Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents together with all pioneer tourism - related stakeholders, travel - related Government, Non-Gov-ernment, Semi-Government and international organizations for providing their support and assistance in this BITM 2019 Campaign.

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